Equipment for an Undergraduate Field Station Laboratory to Provide On-Site Instruction in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology.

本科生野外站实验室提供陆地和水生生态学现场教学的设备。

• 批准号: 8750483
• 负责人: Daniel Hornbach
• 金额: $ 1.78万
• 依托单位: Macalester College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-05-15 至 1989-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8750483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Undergraduate; Field; Station; Laboratory

The Biology Department is unusually fortunate in owning a 300-acre field station located within 20 miles of the main campus. The field station contains a number of different terrestrial and aquatic habitats: prairies and forest, ponds and river. Located at the field station is a laboratory building staffed by a resident naturalist. The field and laboratory equipment provided through this award are making this field station self-sufficient and more fully functional. The new field equipment includes soil and water test kits; the laboratory equipment includes microscopes, balances, drying ovens, and a microcomputer for data storage and analysis. Since the station already has adequate dormitory space, the addition of a fully equipped laboratory allows students to live and conduct meaningful research on site. The equipped station laboratory is particularly valuable during the January interim term when students may study a single topic in depth. With guidance from the resident staff and from the two Ph.D. ecologists on the Biology faculty, the field station now is able to introduce substantial numbers of undergraduates to a high degree of sophistication in studying ecological research methods.

生物系非常幸运，拥有一个300英亩的野外站，位于主校区20英里内。野外观测站有许多不同的陆地和水生栖息地：草原和森林、池塘和河流。位于野外站的是一座实验楼，由一位常驻的自然学家担任工作人员。通过该奖项提供的现场和实验室设备使该现场站能够自给自足，功能更充分。新的现场设备包括土壤和水测试包；实验室设备包括显微镜、天平、烘箱和一台用于数据存储和分析的微型计算机。由于该站已经有足够的宿舍空间，增加了一个设备齐全的实验室，使学生能够在现场生活和进行有意义的研究。设备齐全的工作站实验室在一月份的期中学期尤其有价值，因为学生可以深入研究一个单一的主题。在驻地工作人员和生物系两位生态学博士的指导下，该野外研究站现在能够向大量本科生介绍高度复杂的生态研究方法。